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In her resignation letter Priti Patel wrote: "I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the Government for what has happened", but was that the correct use of the word?

Stig Abell, editor of the Times Literary Supplement tweeted: "'Fulsome' means insincere. She meant to say 'full'".

Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage, told the World at One "there is no central arbiter of what words mean" and "everyone understood" what Priti Patel meant.

He discussed the use of words with Stig Abell.

(Photo: A section of Priti Patel's resignation letter. Credit: PA)